Maybe it's the outfit?

Brings out the best in both my girls :o)


Don't know why...it's SUPER cute!

First day of school!

Thursday was Scarlett's first day of preschool! She's been so excited about it for a long time now! We went together to see her classroom and meet her teacher - Ms. Amy. I stayed with her for the first hour, then all the parents left and those poor poor teachers had screaming 2 year olds alone for an hour. When I came back, the first thing Scarlett told me was "I have FUN!". Ms. Amy said she had a little freak out when I left (and ended up wetting herself), but after she got changed, she was happy again and was fine the rest of the time. Scarlett reported they read two stories - Alice in Wonderland and I Love You Bear and they sang a song about a bumblebee. She told me she had new friends too. I'm so excited for her to start this year. I think she's really going to love it! Here's my precious little preschooler!

Happy Birthday!

To me...the big 2-7 and to Elle...one month old!!

Here's the baby girl...growing up so fast already!


Me and my girls
And here's all four of us
I had a great birthday weekend. We took Elle for her very first outing to brunch at Copeland's, then we came home for cake and presents. It was a fun birthday and lots of great goodies :o)

Princesses

Scarlett likes to pass out princesses to everyone in the family. One night as I was fixing dinner she brought me Sleeping Beauty and her prince. Cameron got Cinderella and the prince. I should have known she wouldn't leave out Baby Elle :o)

Found this after we ate dinner. See her secret friend?

A few days later I was trying to get Scarlett dressed in the morning. She insisted on wearing one of her three favorite dresses (that I'm really getting sick of seeing!). I was trying to convince her to wear something else and here's how I did it.

Me: Scarlett would you like to wear this blue dress?
Scarlett: Nope, I wear the purple soft dress (the one I see every other day).
Me: But this one is so PRETTY! It's blue AND it has sparkles. JUST LIKE Cinderella!
Scarlett: Ok!
Me: Ok, can I put your bloomers on?
Scarlett: No way!
Me: But PRINCESSES wear bloomers.
Scarlett: OK!
Me: Can I put your hair in a pony tail please?
Scarlett: NO!
Me: But if you put your hair in a ponytail, you can put in this beautiful tiara.
Scarlett: OK!

I have found the secret to getting her dressed!

And my final princess story of the day...

We went to the Disney store this week and I should have known it was about time for those Halloween costumes to start appearing! Scarlett started pulling them off the racks and holding them up to her. I decided to let her try one on. Well, naturally she also had to try on the tiara, wand and shoes. And then admire herself in the mirror. I honestly thought I was not going to get her out of that thing to leave the store!!

Sisters

Scarlett and Elle have matching sister shirts. Here they are modeling them for the camera

Cheese
Scarlett is instructing Elle to look at the camera

"Cool"

We had "cool" time this morning. That's what Scarlett refers to the pool as. She is right, it IS pretty cool. Of course Elle doesn't quite think so.

"Mom, it's so HOT. Why I am outside? In AUGUST? In NEW ORLEANS?"
Because sister needs playtime. In the "cool".
My head is sweating.
Still having a ball

And Elle gives it up and passes out from the heat.

Catching up for this week

I have two kids and that makes me a bad blogger :o) Here's a little catch up from the past week's events.

Elle's cord finally fell off so she got a REAL bath. Of course big sister helped too.

They are still loving each other. Scarlett likes to hold Elle "all by myself". She also likes to give weird looks to the camera.We're still under house arrest for another week with Elle. But no worries, we're raring to go when the time hits.
Scarlett's a TAD on the dramatic side. Her new favorite phrase is "you hurt my feelings". Of course she only uses it correctly every now and again. She likes to increase the drama with this pose:

Cameron has had the week mostly off since his attending is out of town, so he's been around a good bit. He had to go in a few mornings this week, so he brought us back breakfast a couple times. Here's the aftermath of beignet day:


Unfortunately the camera just didn't capture quite the sugar-tastrophe of it all.

And finally, the pictures I took this morning. Elle didn't get to wear her "coming home" dress to actually come home since it was GIGANTIC on her when we left the hospital. I put it on her this morning and it fits great now, so I took the pictures I had hoped to get 3 weeks ago!










Scarlett pulled her chair over and draped a blanket over it too so she could be "just like baby Elle".